Signal device for toll-collecting apparatus.



G. T. BUCHANAN. SIGNAL DEVICE FOR ToLL coLLEcTLNG APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 22.1914.

Patented June 15, 1915.

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To all whom if may eoncem i Be it knov'vn that I, GEORGE T, BUCHANAN, a citizen of the United States, residingr at Highland Park, in the county of lla/wayne and Stale of Michigan, have invented new and useful mprovements in Signal Devices for Toll-Collecting Apperauus, of which theI following is a. speciceiien.

This invention relates to toll-collecting cleviees for use at teleyhene pay stations and oher places where prepayment for service is required, by pi'ovifling one ei* inoife slots or unways oli, different sizes into which CoinsL of pope value to pay for', serviees rendered is depovsizefl, and if peper payment has been mede the coin will eens-e :i signal to-ibe 's ojunde in the device that will he heard 2,1: the central station, kenel indieae by its pitch, the number' of en'es sounded, sindl sequence of the tones .the vlue of the coin paid.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple and elcient alarm te be sounded by the coins as they pass through the Ieollecting device to the place of storage. Coins of diieient values `@minding primarily alarms of different. pitches, and, secondary, an` additional alarm or alarms flil'eiing from. the psimar-y pith, the sequence and number of which alarms indicate le the eentral oee voperato theamount o toll pani. This chiesiis accomplished by connecting the delivery end o? each runway with :1 coinmon cross-channel, and placed in Dieper ie letion with Seial cross-channel. en alarm cle vice, such as a numhei' of gouge te the number of runways, and in position be struck by a coin passing lhiough env one of said runways, and engi einer alarm that may lie in the passage of the coin `as it descends through the channel.

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designed to eeeive iespecf` @oies ef t value of five, ten, and 'venivy The Arunways open et the -o 'Une A in from of upstanflig lng t'voi eeeli 6 which is premi? neig-f, i indicating the posii'ied. The run?? l et their l that extends eeifoss the turns downed' end inizo the @eine of the 's roives of the linee,

staint downwai'e mie and 1s cielivereu iheezl n drawer ll. The channel l2 the @hemel i3 is of a Wifi diameter of a ve-ee i: i. a pozion ei' iii-Q. .i Y

.3 es it passes The yummy is the left of il elines tow-eral si enieiing the ci f l length of the i fe ce2-iipieces 4 and also which ,coins of designaed te he deeetefl and viee. placed in below the v which ill h leetes to iluengh heegiisedtlie e Coins fell ein l While he ,oieper l piece@ iwf" Jive C, sepigijeters Wi i their centers of side saisi elgee of the seiai'aer m62 e tlio'ogli 'the Neways.

Mounted in any desiied manner eo the bett-om of the cross-ehennel li? ete fili-vee alarm Cleviees er gongs 2l, 22- en i 23, ei which gengs plee nire: ene iie me: m ways, so their. :l een arranged, the. gang 2 r* :a

nve-cezit pieces felling. enfeean 15?, the gong 22 will. be sineli then the one 2l thus roduei'n three disrs. n 9 P y crater.

through the runway 14 willsound the gong the single sound 'for the five-cent piece, the

double sound for the ten-cent piece and the three sounds which indicate the payment of twenty-five cents.

The operation oi: the alarm is wholly autoluatic and out ol the control of the person depositing' the coin or the central-office oplt is in'lpossiblefor a user to get service by the }')ay1`nent 0f a smaller coin than is'necessary,` as' each coin of di'lierent value placed iny its own slotiwill sound a distinct alarm, andfliecause 'of the separating devices 'inthe runways, 'coin's of 'small denominations placed in the runway indicated for coms of higher value'will not cause the alarm to ring because the situationof' said alarm is below the separatorsl and, therefore, the improper coins are deflected i before they can reach Athe gongs.

What l claim as new is,- l. lnv a signal dev-lee Ifor toll-collecting apparatus, a plurality ot' runways 'of different widths to receive coins or tokens ol" diflerent values. a cross' channel leading' to a place et storage for said coins into-whieh said ri'mways deliver at diler'ent points in length tin-reel", and a plurality of independent signals in said' cross channel, said'coins operating' successively' such signals in the channels as iie between thevpoint of deliv- -ery of the coin vinto the channelzlnd v"the point olr delivery ofthe channel vinto the place oi storage. 'i

2. ln a signaldevice for toll-collecting apparatus, a plurality oit' runways of differ- @i i f 1,143,356

ent widths to receive coins ortokens of different values, a cross-.channel leading toa.

lace of storage into which said runways deliver at dierent points in the length thereof, and a pluralityof independent signals at the bottom of Said cross-channel each in line with one of said runways to be oper ated by the coins passing therethrough,said.

coins also operating successively such other signals in the channel which they may pass as they travell to the place of storage 8. In a signal device for toll collecting ap' paratus, a plurality of runways of different widths to receive colns or tokens of different values, an inclined cross-channel leading to a place offstorage intowvhich said runways deliver at different` peints in the length thereof, a plurality of independent Asignals in the bottom ofsaid cross-channel each being located in line with a runway'in position to be sounded by a coin entering the crosschannel, and also by such c'oins as contact therewith in their passage through the er -sschannel. Y a

4;.v 'In a signal device for toll-collecting apparatus, a plurality of runways ofdifferent widths to receive coins or tokens of different values, a downwardly inclined cross-channel leading to a place' of storage into which said runways deliver at different points in its length, a'sparatilng device in one or more of said runways to separate coins of less size from those otproper size and prevent them enterintgl said cross-channel, and a plurality of independent signals situated in the bottom of the cross-channel eaeh below and in line with one of the runways and aday vled to be` operated by coins et' proper size passing therethrough, said signals being sogdisposed that the` coinsafter sounding their own signal will sound in succession each ol" the other` signals it passes `on its vway through the cross-channel, l

ln testimony'whereof l have hereunto set my hand in presence-oli tufo sulrscriliing witnesses.

GEORGE T. BUCHANAN,

lVitnesses; Y

G. C. GnooAN, M. J. Bansin 

